High Performance Universal I/O with Data Rates up to 800 Mbps. Designed around Plug and Play / Hot Swap technologies, the IEEE 1394B port is used to handle Bandwidth intensive fast serial devices, such as Digital Video Camcorders, High Resolution Digital Cameras, HDTV, Set-Top Boxes, Hard Disks, DVD-ROM Drives, Networking, Printers and Scanners.

FireWire also supports compressed / uncompressed Video support. Up to 63 devices may be connected on a single bus segment, but bus segments may be bridged together, making it possible to connect many multiples of 63 devices.